Alcoholics Eponymous With Xander O'connor

PRESIDENT BLOOD! By which we mean, there is the blood of a US President on this show (but not on this show's hands).  That's right, Harry S Truman's great-grandson, Wes Daniel, joins Xander, Grush, and returning guess (and Truman super-super-super-double-fan) Mike Gifford to drink some shit whisky that tastes like sour apples. Put this podcast in your skull-holes for the standard mix of (very real) love advice from Dear Grush's Guts, a PSA from the future, and a spot from one of our (extra real) sponsors.  All that plus a grown man basically losing his shit over President Truman (Mike, not Truman's actual relative). What'd'ya need, a handy?  You too cool to listen to this? Eh? What makes your life so great, Mr. and Mrs. and (sad lonely) Ms. Cool-person?  Do it.  Do it.  DO IT.   Sorry I shouted.   Keywords for iTunes search algorithm robot overlords (flesh people need not read): alcohol, booze, whiskey, whisky, bourbon, review, rating, comedy, silly, funny, jokes, improv, Chicago, stand up, invisible tits, ca

DIAGNOSIS: MURDER... *cough*, excuse me, DIAGNOSIS: MIRTH.  Arguable mirth.   Check out this piece 'o' pod in which Xander and Grush are joined by the beardedness of Jacob Ligon and the sexy doctor knowledge of Emily Beers M.D.   Finally we will learn if, well...when, Grush will die and also get extensive pricing estimates on how much plastic surgery would cost him (to pretty him up till he dies).   Have all the medical questions answered (you didn't even know you had) and perhaps a touch of a review of a white wine.  Mostly total, inappropriate mouth nonsense, of course.  And a sentence fragment, or two.   iTunes search algorithm terms (for our robot overlords, humans can ignore this): comedy, booze, review, funny, Chicago, improv, stand up, silly, wine, socks, toe-shoes, Jesus sandals, Jesus water wings

This podcast has been carefully aged in oak-flavored digital harddrive casks for 12 days by master artisinal craftspeople resulting in mellow flavors of Xander, Grush, honey, Aaron Sutherland, and Matt Rosfelder with notes of wildly inappropriate comedy, elderberry, and nonsense bits.   The aftertaste is obviously pure shame.   Go on, take a brain-whiff of this podcast with your ear-noses.  A fine scotch is reviewed amidst all the terrible, terrible, great, terrible bits.   iTunes keywords for non-humans (and humans with cool cybernetic implants that let them search for keywords on behalf of iTunes): Chicago, booze, alcohol, whiskey, whisky, scotch, Glenfiddich, comedy, silly, funny, jokes, improv, stand up, non-sequitor, sequitor, Imperator Furiosa, Master Blaster, Mistress Blaster, Wee Baby Blaster

Stop me if you've heard this one: Episode 80 of Alcoholics Eponymous featuring Dos Equis, Xander, Grush, Travis, and Andy Brayan.  Get it?  I do not.   Even if you have heard this episode, you should probably listen again.  Find out about scores of inappropriate things as these four Chicago comedians talk nonsense.  Score = 20, FYI.  So find out about 20's of things.  That's a lot of things.   Also, Xander thought that Dos Equis means "Two Horses", so enjoy that bit of confident wrongness.   Keywords for our iTunes search algorithm overlords (all hail ghost Jobs!): alcohol, booze, beer, review, rating, comedy, chicago, stand up, improv, silly,  funny, jokes, sketch, G's up, ho's down, disapparate, Harry Potter, Scary Plotter, Fairy Scrotter

 TWO MEN ENTER...BOTH LEAVE EVENTUALLY.  Not as dramatic, perhaps, but what is dramatic is this is an epic two-man episode of the podcast with just Xander and Grush having at it.  Are there two other men's voices involved (perhaps corresponding with the voices of Travis Gilkeson and David "Coach" Lintzenich)? Sure!  But they don't count as people. Join Xander and Grush and no-one else of consequence as they review the fine low priced scotch Cutty Sark and answer the age-old question: Does this question need to be answered? Top hot pod here.  Hot top pod here. Come get some, ear-style!   For iTunes search algorith robots that will one day rule us all, I proffer the following: comedy, silly, funny, jokes, stand-up, improv, Chicago, alcohol, booze, whiskey, whisky, review, rating, rubber baby button bumpers

Do not adjust your sets, do not have a doctor put his or her fingers in your ear, you are not crazy: stalwart cohost Grush has been replaced for this episode by self-denied "brassy dame" Rebecca Quirke.  Xander still exists, of course, and is present. This arguably dynamic duo is aided by newcomers Kai Young and Dax de la Monta in reviewing Barefoot Bubbly Champagne and talking an epic load of nonsense.   The episode is long (like my...sentences) because it is just that good.  Drink it in.  Split it in two parts or something.  Don't look at me, I'm not the boss of your life-decisions (expect when I tell you to listen to this damn fine, silly episode).     The following keywords are for our friend the iTunes keyword search thingie: alcohol, review, comedy, jokes, silly, funny, comedians, booze, wine, champagne, sparkling, Chicago, improv, stand up, nips, tucks, quips, ducks, platypii

This fine bit'o'pod combines the mouth-noise making powers of Xander, Grush, Toby McMullen, and Justin Golak and yet ends up with very few injuries and only one local ordinace violation.   We call that a win.  Find out if you should drink Blue Moon and maybe learn about how to make better life choices than the people on this show by LISTENING WITH YOUR SKULL HOLES!   Keywords for iTunes robots: alcohol, review, booze, beer, funny, comedy, jokes, silly, Chicago, stand up, comedians, wheat beer, discombobulation, periwinkle

Big. Black. Beautiful.  THEMES!  Kindred Cook and Desmond Kimberly join Xander and Grush to celebrate all four of them being equally big, black, and beautiful and also really plunge to the heart of racial issues in the 21st century.  If you understood the previous sentence to mean "they talk nonsense while drinking and reviewing Jack Daniels whisky" and say "that's racist!" a bunch of times, then you understood that sentence correctly.   Join this easily 1100lbs of man (cut up into four separate men) for absurdity and booze.  It is a slightly larger than normal episode but that just fits with the 'big' part of the theme and also just means that there was not enough boring stuff to cut to make it shorter.  Surely a good sign!   Search terms for non-humans: Chicago, comedy, alcohol, review, booze, whisky, jokes, funny, silly, comedians, improv, liquor, kill all humans, sandwiches made with machine parts

A mysterious man named Arlo.  An enigmatic bulk called Grush.  A perplexing human conundrum named Justin.  Xander is there too.  Together, these four icons make up this episode of Alcoholics Eponymous.  Well, those four plus some hard cider.   Plug some pod in your ears and come on a delightful aural journey.  Expect the expected: the show is mostly about faffing about on silly topics with a short alcohol review. Don't expect the unexpected...that's impossible.   And now, for iTunes search algorithm (not for humans!): alcohol, review, comedy, funny, improv, stand up, booze, Woodchuck, jokes, Chicago, comedian, a slow death by exsangination, mittens.

'Tis the season to drink boozy white goo and listen to a quartet of silly people generate mouthy pod-noise (there is no singing; the word "quartet" was misleading). That's right, we are drinking Evan Williams Egg Nog and discussing almost anything else.  Xander and Grush are joined by the lovely Di Bellick and the lovely Martin Morrow (guys can be lovely too, right?).  Grush is not lovely.  Suck it, Grush!   Find out who had the best sex story from 2014 (hint: it wasn't Xander) and also learn about a dozen other super inappropriate things in this damn fine episode of the show.   Ignore the following iTunes search keywords unless you are a robot working for Apple: comedy, jokes, funny, stand up, improv, alcohol, booze, review, bourbon, whiskey, austere mittens, oblate spheroid

Welp, podcast episodes don't get much more inappropriate than this one.   Grush and Xander are joined by Levi Eubanks, Nico Carter, and the passive voice to review the Ommegang Game of Thrones beer and to engage in classic, classy discourse like about how the words "cum" and "tech" are interchangeable and how Grush is likely the "Shitler" of the future and should be killed now, in the present (aka the future's past).   The above may make the episode sound worse than normal but it is indeed better than average (and better than all other art made by humans...combined).  You can trust this text; it has no bias.  The beer gets reviewed too, eventually.   Here are some fun words for iTunes to read (humans can skip them and start listening to the damn episode): alcohol, beer, review, booze, jokes, comedy, silly, funny, improv, Chicago, wet mittens

Xander and Grush are joined by Zach Barts and Kevin Gerrity as they brave what may be the worst alcohol yet reviewed on this show: Tyku Sake!     Listen (aka ear-watch) as they struggle to describe the weird, terrible flavor but mostly just do what they all do best: talk silliness about serious subjects and babble seriously about nonsense things (and procrastinate having to drink the sake).   The drink turns out to be terrible but the comedy generated during its consumption is top notch (I would say "super premium" but, since that's what it says on one of the two Tyku bottles, I think we have to change the meaning of that term).   So: be cool, stay in school (or don't, whatever, I'm not the boss of your education-related decisions), and listen to this pod.  Yeah, rhymes are optional in life, friend.   Humans can stop reading.  This is for iTunes keyword searching sexy bots: comedy, funny, jokes, stand up, improv, alcohol, sake, booze, review, drink, Chicago

The man who supplied Xander his Y chromosome is on the show! (not to be confused with the shady dealer who sells Xander his black market Z chormosome performance enhancing supplements).  Join Travis Gilkeson and Grush as they behold the inter-generational banter between Xander and his Dad (there is a lot of Xander bitching about puns).    If you actually care about the alcohol review, this show has an actual wine collector (the aforementioned father) to help the other guys review this fine red zinfandel.   And, of course, you will learn at what age it becomes acceptable to have sex with a hideous alien clone.  That's important too.   For iTunes optimization purposes, here are some additional words: comedy, alcohol, review, booze, jokes, funny, improv, Chicago, wine, seven deadly zins, silly, 

Australians! Well, one Australian and a man named Cleveland from New Jersey.  Confused?  You should be!  Wesley Nott and Cleveland Anderson join Grush (who is probably from somewhere called "Grush-pit" or something stupid and gross; man, he's the worst!) and Xander to review Bacardi Select Rum and rum and cokes in general.    You better believe that the majority of the hour and a half run time is devoted to talking nonsense, though.  In fact, it is such excellent silly nonsense that it defied being cut down to make a shorter episode.  Your welcome, America...and, to a lesser extent, Bolivia!   Exclamation points!   Humans, stop reading.  The following is for iTunes search algorithm thingy: alcohol, review, rum, Bacardi, comedy, booze, jokes, silly, funny, stand-up, improv, Chicago, a sack of mostly dead human fingers.

Danny Eagle, Michael Grush, Travis Gilkeson, and Xander O'Connor discuss the issues of the day.   Psych!   Sadly, no one says "psych" in the course of the show.  Happily, we do talk a whole lot of nonsense whist reviewing the beer Hoegarden.  If you've heard the show before, it's like that but better.  If you haven't heard the show before, you make terrible decisions in life (until now!) and should probably just experience it without a full breakdown beforehand.   Analytically, iTunes scans these words for keywords so, for you future-robot-overlords out there reading this: alcohol, review, comedy, beer, jokes, silly, funny, chicago, improv, booze, rating, buckets of loose nipples.

Rebecca Quirke and Betsy Gregg join Xander and Grush for this fine exploration of two inexpensive Dos Vidas tequilas and, more importantly, talking a whole lot of stupid, ostensibly funny, nonsense.   To list it all would do it a disservice; suffice it to say, even stuff that was cut was good.  Now that you've been told it is good, you'd be a real jerk not to listen to it.   For iTunes embedded keyword search: alcohol, review, tequila, dos vidas, comedy, funny, silly, jokes, chicago, Xander, O'Connor, pumpernickle

Xander is reunited with the reknowned comedic trio that are only found together on this show: Rebecca Quirke, Aaron Sutherland, and Patrick "Thorpe" Zunich (sic...and sick!).   At nearly an hour and a half, it's a bit of a long episode but hey, if you love the show like the many loyal listeners, that is extra content.  If you don't like the show and want it to be over sooner, perhaps don't listen at all?  Or maybe listen for exactly the amount of time you desire?  We don't know, We're not the thought-boss of your thoughts, boss.   We review Yellow Tail Chardonnay and talk all of the high quality nonsense our dozens of listeners have come to expect.  Put it in your skull via your ears!   And for iTunes search terms that need to be in the body of the description nowadays (and for description completists who need to read every word we type): comedy, alcohol, review, booze, wine, jokes, silly, satire, funny, Chicago, stand-up, improv, nickels!

It's finally here! The podcast has triumphed over technological disasters and laziness!  It has not yet triumphed over exclamation points!   Xander, Grush, Sean Hutchison, and first time guest Mike Gifford rate (well, suffer through) their first Mezcal while spending way, way too much time talking about which of them are attractive enough for Mike to have sex with or fat enough for Sean to use as a without-a-woman-last-resort.   We would say "you just had to be there" but that is: a) a dumb phrase, and b) not the case since you can just give it a listen...the ole college try with your ears.   And for iTunes, here are such search terms: comedy, alcohol, booze, review, jokes, silly, Chicago, stand up, improv, mittens.

Xander has assembled a tight-knit cadre of super-podcaster-reviewer-folk that include Grush, Zane Fried, and Carl Bowlby.  How tight-knit?  They were trapped together in a tiny, industrial-grade comedy sweater.  That's a thing.   Still with us?  No?  We couldn't follow that one either.    Give it a listen for all the normal great reasons: we review an Irish alcohol (Teeling Whiskey), talk a bunch of nonsense, work the shaft of Grush's advice column, and spread the word of Heaven in a PSA that goes terribly awry.   If you are iTunes and are searching this text for keywords, I would say the following disjointed words to you: comedy, jokes, silly, funny, comedians, Chicago, booze, drink, review.

Toby McMullen is in this episode.  Grush is in this episode. Justin Bueltel is in this episode.  Xander happens.  You are now informed.  Please return to your work-cell and eat, type, and procreate.  All is well.   Those four "folk" get "folksy" with words and review Fireball Cinnamon Whisky.  Spoiler alert: it tastes like the candy "Fireballs".  There, we've just saved you the hour and a half you could have spent listening to us review this alcohol and talk a whole lot of silliness.  The episode has it all: a PSA from Heaven; the iPatch, a piece of wearable tech that counts sit-ups, someone seeking love advice from Grush's Guts.  What more do you need?  That question was rhetorical; we can't hear you.   For the sake of iTunes fine keyword searching: alcohol, review, comedy, jokes, silly, funny, Chicago, comedians, whiskey